Workers in the RMT transport union in London are involved in a number of disputes on London Underground and on the rail.
Anti-academies protesters occupied the London headquarters of Actual Return for Kids (Ark) on Thursday of last week, to protest against a proposed academy in Wembley, west London.
Trade unionists at the London Development Agency (LDA) are organising to defend the vital funding they provide to different groups in the face of new mayor Boris Johnson’s cost-cutting agenda.
PCS civil service workers’ union activists in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) met at the Left Unity socialist group conference in London last Saturday.
Some 5,000 members of the PCS civil service workers’ union at the Scottish government and Registers of Scotland struck on Thursday of last week over a below-inflation pay offer.
Street cleaners and grounds staff in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, staged a one-day strike on Friday of last week at council contractor English Landscapes.
Some 200 Fremantle care workers in the Unison union in Barnet, north London, were set to strike on Thursday of this week in their continuing campaign against the company’s attacks on their terms and conditions.
Residential workers in Glasgow have voted overwhelmingly to take strike action in a dispute over their pay review grades and council plans to "modernise" residential services.
Trade unionists and other anti-fascist campaigners across the Midlands region are gearing up to protest against a fascist rally due to be held by the British National Party (BNP) in Derbyshire next Saturday 16 August.
Egyptian opposition groups and workers’ associations are calling for international support for 49 people arrested during the state crackdown on protesters in the Nile Delta town of Mahalla al-Kubra in April.
The World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) international trade talks in Geneva collapsed last week. This has led to howls of despair from the media, which says it will damage the economies of developing countries.
